“Apple Computer, Inc. is preparing for the launch of a completely redesigned iMac personal computer, according to numerous reports and an analysis of recent inner-workings of the company. Earlier this month, Apple initiated an inventory flush of its current iMac offerings, explaining to resellers that they would receive no further shipments of the 17 and 20-inch iMac G4. Resellers were also told this week to expect a discontinuation of the 15-inch iMac G4 in the immediate future,” Kasper Jade reports for AppleInsider.
“The new iMac will reportedly sport single Power PC G5 processors at speeds below 2GHz and feature a completely redesigned enclosure. Details are sketchy, but one source, who has provided accurate information on previous projects, claims that the new iMac will sport a vertical ‘pizza box’ physique with the main logic board mounted vertically behind the computer’s LCD screen,” Jade reports. “Multiple reports indicate that Apple plans to introduce the new iMac G5 as early as Monday’s World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC), where CEO Steve Jobs may choose to showcase the computer.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: If so, bring it on and price it right, Apple. Mac Adders await (remember, not Switchers – let ’em switch on their own which they’ll do soon enough after they add that Mac to their computing arsenals).
What if Apple built an iMac based on a iBook or Powerbook? Imagine folding thre screen all the way over so it is flat. It would not be an ibook, but rather a desktop with the screen fixed. Add a wireless mouse and keyboard and you are set. The form factor would be almost the same size as my 15″ flat screen.
The powerbooks already have, FW 800, FW400, USB 2, Bluetooth, Audio in and out, AE, slot loading DVD, DVI, s-video out and ethernet (whew).
It would make a great media PC in a small footprint. Smaller than alot of PC Laptops. Apple could claim a desktop that is smaller than most of their PC laptop counterparts.
And it MUST be affordable, NOT $2000
Just a thought.
1st post?!
I just bought my wife an old blue clamshell iBook on eBay. In many ways (aside from the small screen and lack of FireWire port) I like it better than my Powerbook G4. It’s the perfect knock about notebook.
Okay Apple, it’s time to wow me.
I don’t get the redesign?
One sales point was the small footprint. Are they tossing that to the wind? Seems strange.
Any body have an image(a guess) as to what is being described?
Appleinsider said …..
pizza box?
we will see.
Whatever it looks like, I’ll wait to pass judgement when I actually see one – not a photo but in person. And forget it being available for $599. It ain’t gonna happen. Accept it or move on.
Sounds like those all in one Dells with everything behind the screen. Except, those are crap and this likely will be something people want. I hope. Still, if they don’t offer a headless option, it’ll be more expensive than it needs to be for people that would otherwise consider it because they already have a perfectly good monitor to which to hook it.
Are we talking another 20th Anniversary Mac Design here?
The whole world is waiting for the next over-designed over-priced over-hyped product from Apple…
If Apple is innovative we will see the PC box makers copying the new offering from Apple.
If not… nothing will happen and the real IT world will march forward following the lead from our-great-provider and its soon to be released Longhorn OS that will set the stage for the new millennium and beyond…
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Everyone should really get over the idea of a headless iMac. Not gonna happen and it really doesn’t make a lot sense for Apple to do so. The iMac is a nod to the original Mac from a design perspective and part of the design has always been an integrated monitor. The philosphy has always been that you pull it out of the box, plug it in, and it works. You can’t do that without an integrated monitor. If you wan’t to have a choice of monitor, buy a PowerMac.
If it is a headless Mac, with a cool Apple display option, but also VGA or DVI support – and a fair price (say, starting around $800.00 for the base model) – they will sell millions like the first iMacs 6 years ago.
I haven’t seen any links to be able to watch the Stevenote online. Aren’t they doing that this time????? 🙁
Everyone should really get over the idea of a headless iMac.
No doubt, as if it’s headless it isn’t an iMac!!!
Headless iMac G5 is what I want, and what I will buy.
If Apple calls it an iMac, it is an iMac. Get over your semantic trap!
Yes Rockjohnson that is the philosophy. If you have $1000 to spend, you are too dumb to plug stuff in. If you have $2000, it’s a good bet you can handle the task.
The iMac should be to the PowerMac what the iBook is to the PowerBook. It makes a more logical transition.
iMac G5 -> similar to the PowerMac, but with a smaller white case, supporting a single processor.
I will actually pay for this computer, as opposed to spewing closed-minded devotion to a niche-product mentality.
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“Longhorn OS that will set the stage for the new millennium and beyond…”
So release date has been put back to 3001, I guess
sputnik – be real. Longshot *cough*, i mean Longhorn, will be another poor attempt to copy osX, to no prevail, and won’t get here until Q4 2006 at the absolute earliest. the real IT world is beginning to embrace Linux and Mac for their revolutionary work at the OS level.
Sounds like you don’t work with macs, aye? My deepest regrets…
It will not be a headless mac – an imac is an all in one, super duper little machine. x86 machines running Winblows can’t compare to the cost/ROI that macs can; never have and never will. As long as small companies need to either carry at IT person AT ALL, or contract them, makes them not worth the money.
My Tibook 550 is 2 1/2 years old and flawless, as is my 18 month old 1ghz 17″ imac.
I can’t wait. WWDC (we will delight crowds) is only a few days away – I will be webcasting on my dual2ghz G5 with 23″ cinemas!!! (i work in advertising – gotta have the best!!!)
As in machines that people prefer to buy – i will drive my 6% market share Infiniti all day long!
The “pizza box” idea will *not* happen. Why would Apple take a major conceptual step back from their current iMac design? The pizza box design, as it stands with other computer makers, doesn’t allow for the screen to move around. the iMac’s design is so clearly better than that, that they would be nuts to change it.
Now, if the screen were detachable, then I could understand the pizza box thing—maybe.
There are going to be two imacs: the current version and the new headless version called “imac2″….or “notthecube”.
So Apple could possibly put a G5 processor in a small pizzabox form factor, but it can’t put one in a Powerbook. How thin could this pizzabox be?
“How thin could this pizzabox be?:
All depends on the kind and amount of toppings you order.
Please, everyone, stop responding to Sputnik and his posts. Trolls are one of the few problems in life that if you ignore long enough, they do go away.